Tag Archives: Rape

As Malaysia commemorates its 46th anniversary, 15 indigenous Sarawakians have been detained by Kuching police for trying to send a memorandum of protest to the Sarawak Chief Minister.

Among those arrested are Mark Bujang (BRIMAS), Raymond Abin (BRIMAS) and Hellan Empaing (WADESA), all leaders of the Jaringan Orang Asal SeMalaysia (Indigenous Peoples Network of Malaysia) as well as representatives from the Kayan, Kenyah and Penan communities of Sarawak.

The contingent, consisting of 6 Penan, 4 Iban, 2 Kayan and 3 Kenyah are all representatives of communities who will be affected by two major dams which are being built in their areas. They had prepared a memorandum on the issue and were delivering it to Wisma Bapa Malaysia, the office of the Chief Minister. While waiting for endorsement of the document, they were arrested by local police. They are currently being held in the Kampung Gita Police Station in Petra Jaya, Kuching, Sarawak. It is uncertain whether they are being charged, or what reasons are being given for their detention.

Jaringan Orang Asal SeMalaysia strongly condemns the detention of its members who were attempting to deliver a memorandum on behalf of the indigenous peoples of the Baram and Murum areas of Sarawak. The memorandum protested the State Government’s actions to build hydro electric dams in these areas without the free, prior and informed consent of the communities affected and without due regards to the status of the native lands involved. The actions of the State Government are in clear contradiction to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which Malaysia strongly supports.

We also condemn the use of arrest to intimidate and silence the voices of the communities who are questioning the construction of large dams on the area. This demonstrates the unwillingness of the State Government to ensure the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples in projects that affect them.

We call upon the Sarawak State Government to immediately release all fifteen Sarawakians and engage in a proper consultative process with the affected communities. We also call for the respect of the constitutional native land rights of these communities. It is also in violation of the right to peaceful assembly, guaranteed under Article 10 of the Federal Constitution.

A woman was stripped naked behind some bushes by a man posing as an enforcement officer but escaped being raped when the man fled after hearing sounds of people nearby.

The man had abducted the 28-year-old woman and her sister from their car outside a supermarket on Sunday night.

The sisters had parked outside the supermarket when the man, identifying himself as an enforcement officer, suddenly got into the car and directed the woman to drive to a secluded area in Jalan Cecily here.

He then fondled and molested her and assaulted her when she tried to put up a struggle .

He dragged her out of the car towards some bushes and stripped her while the terrified sister was warned not to make any sound.

A TEENAGER who took up an offer by four strangers to send her home was gang-raped by them for 12 days in a house in Kuantan, reported Sin Chew Daily. The four men had approached the victim, aged 19, after she and a friend whom she had watched a movie with at a Kuantan shopping mall on June 5 went separate ways. Kuantan OCPD Asst Comm Mohd Jasmani Yusoff was quoted by the daily as saying that the men offered to send the girl home to Pekan. The victim, who did not suspect anything amiss, accepted the offer. The men took her to a house in Kuantan instead where the girl claimed she was confined in a room for 12 days, during which the men took turns to rape her. She only fled the house on Tuesday when the men fell asleep before lodging a report at the Kuantan police station. Police have identified the suspects who are aged between 16 and 36.

KUANTAN: A 17-year-old shop assistant has claimed that her employer raped her in his house in Raub on Monday.

According to state CID chief Asst Comm T. Narenasegaran, the victim believed that the employer was sincere in wanting to send her back to her hostel after the shop, located in Simpang Kallang, closed at about 11.45pm.

“However, on the way back, the employer made a detour and went to his house at Taman Amelina Letsari instead. He then raped her in the house,” ACP Narenasegaran said yesterday.

The suspect, 33, was arrested after the victim lodged a report the next day, he added.

In an unrelated incident, a 20-year-old man was detained in a shop selling handphones in Kempadang here on Wednesday in connection with illegal gambling activities.

ACP Narenasegaran said the youth was arrested in a raid following a tip-off.

Indonesian teen model Manohara Odelia Pinot, 17, related the abuse that she alleges she suffered at the hands of her husband, Kelantan prince Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra, including ‘being raped’ during a boat ride from Singapore to Lombok, an island near Bali, Indonesia.

Her husband’s lawyer, Haaziq Pillay, declined to comment on the allegations, saying that Muhammad Fakhry had filed a report with the Malaysian police on the matter.
When did the abuse start?

Manohara: I don’t remember when. But it was not long before the wedding. I got raped, basically. I didn’t tell anyone.

I didn’t tell my mom. Tengku himself acted like it didn’t happen. I was just in denial. I went numb. I didn’t want to believe it.

We were cruising from Singapore to Lombok, to Bali. In the boat, he just grabbed me. At the time I was just in the room, sitting there to wait for my mom. Basically, it just happened. But after that, I just kind of shut down. I didn’t know what to think about myself. Basically, I was just in denial about the whole thing.
If he raped you before you went to Malaysia, why did you accept his invitation?

Because, (a) I just didn’t want to believe, so I just tried to completely block that out, and (b) after that he was really nice to me. He was extremely sweet and gentlemanly. I didn’t know what happened, actually.
Things got worse after you married him?

I know that March was the burn – I had an iron burn on my neck. And a cigar burn on my forehead. It was just random, he just came by with a cigar. I was ironing, and then he just took the thing. The iron came first. I took pictures of the scars with my BlackBerry. (photos below)

Between March and April, the mental and sexual abuse was constantly there. I was held there against my will.

They kept injecting me with several different medications to [make me] gain weight, to make me fall asleep and some to paralyse me.

It was emotionally and mentally exhausting to endure that.

When the whole razor [abuse] started, when things started to get real rough, that was in April. He took an eyebrow razor and cut me around my chest area.

The hardest thing about that was I was aware of it, I could feel it, but I couldn’t move or scream. I don’t know what he had given me.

I could see, hear him, smell him, feel him. I could feel the cuts on my body. It hurt. The physical pain, I didn’t mind too much. Just knowing that you have no control over anything and can’t do anything about it was just…

It happened three times. The first thing he marked on me was just a small X on my chest area. And the worst part about it is that he didn’t even slash it fast or anything. [He] just took his time, slowly. He looked as calm as ever. It’s like if you gave someone a paintbrush and told him to draw a flower. It took a little over 20 minutes.
Did he follow with sexual abuse?

Yes. It usually followed or happened beforehand.
Are you traumatised?

No, not traumatised. He’s taken so much from my life in the past, I’m not going to let him to take away my future. Someone once said, “Forgiving is freeing yourself.”